Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Butch Cassidy peddling popcorn and salad dressing, it was only a matter of time before the Sundance Kid got into the act. This week Robert Redford, 52, is launching a line of products and condiments in a new mail-order catalog with a Southwestern flavor. Titled Sundance, the 36-page catalog offers such Native American and regional specialties as dried wildflower bouquets ($25), chili wreaths ($36) and handmade cowboy boots...
...proceeds will go to Redford's Utah-based, nonprofit Sundance Institute for the Arts and an environmental group he started, the Institute for Resource Management. Explains Gary Beer, 38, president of Sundance Group: "Government funding for the arts is down, and we'd like to be self-sufficient." While consumers may be hungry for Redford's hot sauce ($25), the Great Waldo Pepper will have to sell a lot of chili to match beans with L.L. Bean...
...York City, Madonna helped organize a benefit concert called "Don't Bungle the Jungle," which also featured the B-52s and the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Xapuri, the remote town where Mendes lived and died, has been besieged by journalists, agents and pilgrims. Robert Redford, David Puttnam and other prominent moviemakers have sought the rights to film the Mendes story...
...good work goes on for veteran good-earthers. Cheers' Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, lobbies Congress to help save the oceans. Barbra Streisand offers a $250,000 donation to the Environmental Defense Fund. Robert Redford, who is planning a film with Steven Spielberg about the damaging of a rain forest, speaks on global warming at a Senate hearing. "It's important to raise the environment to the same level as national security," Redford says. "If we poison our planet, what is there left to defend...
Does Dan Quayle look more like Robert Redford or Pat Sajak? Just one of the burning questions in a made-for-TV campaign...